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I find the idea fascinating that there might be some kind of watershed caused by Twitter's decomposition. Like, people are suddently skeptical of social media hype, & that translates into being skeptical about things they maybe shouldn't be that skeptical about. Like how a lot of solid companies cratered in the dot-bomb because the market lost faith in fundamentals. HP e.g. had a rock solid record of improving numbers for decades, but suddenly that wasn't good enough.
Once again, seeing the whole, "Fediverse is full of Europeans who keep refusing to frame social justice issues strictly from the point of view of USians and this is definitely very problematic everyone!" thing.
And I can't help thinking, "Have you tried taking your cultural imperialism and shoving it up your arse? Maybe that will help?"
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Anyone whenever the press talks about something they actually know about: Wow, these guys just talk utter crap for clicks!
The same people when the press says the US is hiding aliens from them: This seems very credible and legitimate.
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Daily Mail readers are DEEPLY CONCERNED.
Good. They can fuck off for stealing my EU citizenship.
BT announces major telephone line change impacting millions
Charities have raised concerns that elderly people could be left isolatedNottinghamshireLive
Apple Watch workout app doesn’t track course for paddling for some strange reason, so I looked for an alternative that integrates with workouts, but adds course tracking.
Seems there are two. One is free, the other is 6 euros a month.
I hate this subscription crap. Just let us buy things and stop trying to turn the whole world into a glorified Company Store. I’d have gladly paid for either, but I’m not renting a workout tracking app, especially not at that price.
Developers: if I have a choice between a product I can buy, and one I have to rent, I will always go for the one I can buy.
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“You have to wake him up, now!”
If that’s Senator Thurman you’re referring to, the man you’re about to wake up ain’t him. Shit about to get real!
As I’m quite fond of not drowning, it pleases me immensely that some of the orcas have been tagged. They plan to try and tag more this summer as they migrate through biscay, and update the maps weekly on the orca app.
We needed this 3-4 years ago, and it’s only by luck that nobody has died yet, but better late than never. When we know where they are, we can avoid them.
We now have two inflatable SUPs, an 11 foot model and a 10 foot model, and for the first time, @Sylvia Knight and I went out on the sea together. It was a beautiful calm day; the Atlantic was being very benign with a smooth sea state, crystal clear water. Saw loads of fish and you get s really good view from up there on the SUP.
I really like the smaller of the two boats. It’s sporty and moves with the swell, giving a very dynamic feel. Looking forward to doing a lot more of this!
BTW, AIUI the major difference between head lice, body lice, and pubic lice is more geography than biology, so head and public lice could probably transmit it too.
But they live directly on us, in our hair, and don't mingle every time we take our clothes off and put them in a pile.
That's probably why head and public lice are not known for being disease vectors.
BTW, if you want to know how to do long form blog posts like this with links embedded in Mastodon, you can't.
I'm using an alternate fediverse server called Friendica. It's much more capable in many ways than Mastodon. Why not check it out?
Translating Portuguese subjunctives directly in to English to sound like I’m in an 18th century novel is my new hobby.
Children, leave your father in peace that he better tend to his consumption!
“my speech”, “funded”.
Yeah, I would have blocked that account on Reddit lickety-split. That’s not how someone who was been wronged speak.
Also twatter, Reddit, meta(stasis), etc will happily lock out an account. So that’s not an argument, unless it’s related to their famously lax rules for certain demographics (go to some of the religious subreddits and view death threats to large groups of people).
In the book, 1984, the true sign of loyalty to The Party is that you believe what they tell you over the evidence of your own senses.
This is exemplified when Winston is being “re-educated” in the Ministry of Love by O’Brien. In a scene reprised in Star Trek: TNG, O’Brien shines four lights at Winston but wants him to believe there are actually five.
Eventually Winston genuinely believes there are five, and so is ready to go to Room 101 to complete his love of Big Brother.
And so it is with Brexit Britain: true believers are required to genuinely believe that a clearly and obviously black piece of paper is, in fact, blue.
Only Brexit Britain can’t afford a Ministry of Love, so adherents have to brainwash themselves on the cheap.
Come to twitter! It’s got:
- Pretend API!
- Shouty racist!
- Presidential campaign lau%..$£NO CARRIER
- Wonder where your friends went!
- Flat Earth!
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Took the SUP out into the sea proper today. Second time and I felt a lot more comfortable with the swell. Still swam unintentionally though.
But I was stable enough to get this picture of @Sylvia Knight in her Surfski kayak.
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Initial work. It creates separate Fediverse and Bluesky posts, so it's a crossposter rather than an integration, but shows promise.
It worked, by the way.
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Yes! There's gotta be nonlethal ways that work, or at least try them first. Humans are the most dangerous apex predator. #OrcaConservancy #OrcasGoneBad
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Exactly what I was thinking!
Have you checked out the show? I’m reluctant to start until it’s over.
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